SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – A person is dead and four others are injured following a gas explosion at a Miami-Dade County vehicle maintenance facility in Southwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n
7Skyforce hovered above the scene of the blast at 6100 block of Southwest 87th Avenue, late Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Forty Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to reports of an explosion. The call was upgraded to a First Alarm fire to provide additional personnel. <\/p>\n
The explosion took place at the gas pumps where maintenance crews and fire department officials come to fill up their service vehicles with fuel.<\/p>\n
MDFR said the explosion came from an underground fuel tank. <\/p>\n
The force from the impact caused a canopy near the pumps to be blown sideways.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen our units arrived, they did find an overhang that had been partially destroyed [and an] active fire that was coming out from underground,\u201d said MDFR Chief Ray Jadallah.<\/p>\n
Fire crews deployed hose lines to conduct a fire attack, successfully extinguishing the flames. <\/p>\n
Officials found one person dead and four others injured. Two adults were transported as trauma alerts to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital. Another adult was transported to a local hospital and the fourth patient was assessed on scene and did not require transport.<\/p>\n
One of those injured is a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office lieutenant. <\/p>\n
Following the explosion, first responders quickly got to work on making sure everyone was accounted for at Cherokee Enterprises, the company that had a crew working at the facility at the time of the explosion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to need you to contact Cherokee Enterprises. We need a count of how many employees they had at this site,\u201d an emergency responder said.<\/p>\n
Cherokee Enterprises, which is also known as CEI, is a Medley-based fueling company that does work at fueling facilities.<\/p>\n
Family members of CEI employees were seen rushing to the scene to ask for information from authorities about what happened.<\/p>\n
Officials have not publicly identified any of the victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, we are not releasing identities because we are still in the process of making contact with family members,\u201d said MDSO Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz.<\/p>\n
Cordero-Stutz did confirm the hospitalized victims were in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Authorities said they are working with the State Fire Marshal and the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office to determine what led to the deadly blast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe work together, we try to determine the cause and origin. I feel confident that they will in the next couple of days,\u201d said Jadallah.<\/p>\n
7News reached out to CEI but were told the company had no comment at this time.<\/p>\n
A section of Southwest 87th Avenue remains closed as authorities continue their investigation.<\/p>\n
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